I built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve. When pushed down into water, the valve shuts and air is forced out of the spout and into the fire. When the pot is lifted in water, air is sucked in through the open inlet valve and the cycle repeats. I got the idea from a Food and Agriculture Organization website I saw years ago. A Google image search for “FAO water bellows” gives an image of someone using a more complicated version at a brick forge in Zimbabwe, possibly from 1994, but I can no longer find the original diagram or description. From memory, the air and water containers were steel drums and there was a U-shaped pipe to convey the air down from inside the air drum when lowered, through and out the water drum and into the fire. Air entered an inlet valve in the top of the air drum when lifted. There may also have been an outlet valve which would presumably have been located on the outlet pipe. The pipe remained stationary through the cycle. My design is a simplified version of this with a spout leading directly from the air pot into the fire. The spout moves with the pot instead of being fixed in place as it is raised and lowered. The spout nose is resting in place on the ground in front of the fire acting as a hinge, with the whole unit acting as a lever. If the nose of the spout is resting in the entrance of a fixed tuyere (air pipe) then the angle of the jet can be kept constant with the added advantage of the venturi effect drawing in more air. My design also only has one valve (inlet) for simplicity. The bellows produced a similar effect to the traditional blacksmith bellows without requiring leather to build. It seems to produce a higher-pressure jet of air than the blower I’ve used previously. It’s also less complicated to build, with fewer perishable materials and has fewer moving parts that often break or seize during use. It should be easier to maintain, more ergonomic and require less skill to use. My next step is to conduct a test iron smelt with the existing prototype and compare its performance with the old blower. Possible improvements could be made where it would be made a double acting bellows with two connected pots similar to the Peruvian whistle jar but with 4 valves to direct air flow. It could also be made larger or two could be used at the same time.
have u thought about making a clay water wheel which can power a bellow or bellows, theres a video of an old forge with bellows powered this but on a massive scale
@@KandiKlover You can see that in "primitive skills", 7years channel, after 1 year he really started something big, and you can see all the progress until now (no tech cheat, guy really flooded a landmass, started building a drainage system with 3 stones, and then let it dry before building a fucking articificial lake. And you get to see the same valve with a feather twist 😉
I have been watching this channel on and off for YEARS, and this morning was the first time i had ever had captions on. I was like, man this is the loudest this guy has ever been. I wasn't against it, just something was off.. and i was like "wait, those look like captions"...hit C, and boom. Mind blown that that's been there the whole time. I mustve had them on for something else, and for the first time had them on for this.
I appreciate that he puts the info in the CCs instead of overlaying it or narrating it, so people can still watch it without the subs (they are missing out tho)
I never thought in my life you could make a reed valve air compressor out of a leaf, clay and water... at this rate this channel is going to be a historical reference for centuries to come. That's proper nuts
I remember laughing at his early coil pots, they were way too wet and he was terrible about letting them dry. Now he's well beyond what I could do with natural earthenware and a pit firing. Hell, he might be able to mix his own underglazes soon
That's the most hard working tiny leaf I have ever seen in my life. It's so cute that it's a vital part of such a cool tool. If you asked me 10 minutes ago how a singe tiny leaf leaf could be used in a practical way, I'd be hard pressed for an answer.
OH, my granddad used to have something like this in his forge, he called it a frog pot, cause of the splashy grunting sound it makes. That really took me back.
Interesting... Considering that OP said he couldn't find the original reference image he based this design off of, maybe he'll notice your comment so he can find the "frog pot"?
What I love about this design is anybody could make this. The other bellow designs need much more effort and skill to get right, but this is just a clay pot and a leaf. But then counter-intuitively it's the most advanced in terms of physics knowledge.
Thank goodness this guy is still around despite the allegations of other channels who used modern machinery, which ended up being true. So glad to have an authentic person who actually does primitive technology 🙌 keep it up!
You do a great job filming these. No music, no narration, no sponsors or ads. The way you put these videos together makes it so easy to follow along that we can understand without you saying a word. The captions are a great touch, optional but informational. Thanks for another great video!
@@harleylequin3987 I tried to imagine an alternate ending where it cuts to John talking about how great Cash App is, and then I realized I don't actually know what John sounds like. The guy's gotta be up there with Teller from Penn & Teller for "Most hours of entertainment without saying a word". Rowan Atkinson gets honorable mention for third place, but I've heard him talk quite a bit by now.
Absolutely ingenious! By combining this idea with a bell siphon and a flowing stream, its now possible to completely automate airflow into a fire! This would have the added benefit of being able to control speed of operation by adjusting the height of the bell siphon and/or the amount of incoming water
I tried making a bell siphon bellows at home so it empties and fills pushing and sucking air. It sort of works though the air flow was low. I thought a trompe might work the same but I'm not sure. Thanks.
@@primitivetechnology9550 a trompe will get you a very good and constant stream of presurized air; but you have 2 problems to solve, 1 you need a water jump, so either making a dam or chanelling some water to somewhere where there will be a jump, and 2 the pots and clay pipes will need to handle some presure from the presurized air, not much, but baked clay is not known for elasticity or resisting tension.
I've been following this man since his channel started, one of the first original outdoors survival, hunter-gatherer afficionado's and the best at it, as no one does what he does, or how he does it. I've learned alot from this man, and I'm happy to see where his channel is at, with how it's grown with like-minded people who appreciate and love the hunter gatherer life style.
Using the Earth to construct a tool, that uses Water to move Air and feed a Fire. Primitive Technology is the reincarnation of the Avatar! Master of all 4 elements.
This is why ancient people were often smarter than modern people. Now they didn’t know as many things about our reality. But they actually had to sue their intelligence to live and survive. Today you can just watch UA-cam and consume 1300 calories at McDonald’s and never truly rely on your cognition. So keep this in mind when people try to write off ancient societies as absurd, backwards and ignorant. They had their own wisdoms and truths
Love the channel. When you watch videos of this sort, make sure you are learning something that you can replicate. Otherwise, you're wasting your time. This channel is an absolute gold and a source of valuable information.
If you wanted to optimize it, you could make the front part of the wall shorter, so you’re lifting less weight, which you’d be able to do since that part never leaves the water anyway. A horizontal handle near the top could also be nice, which you could rig to a rope, pulley, and foot pedal.
If you see in the back ground at 3:57 I made a prototype similar to what you describe (slopes towards outlet spout). The handle is a good idea too so it resembles the traditional bellows. clay may break, maybe a socket for a wooden handle. Thanks.
@@primitivetechnology9550 perhaps instead of a handle on the side a loop/habdle on the top near the edge, that can be used in 3 different ways, 1 directly as a handle by hand, 2 a place to tie rope with wich to pull up, and 3 by inserting a stick that goes past it a bit, the stick that protrudes becomes a horizontal handle.
@@primitivetechnology9550 Is the water really necessary here? It seems to me that anything that will force out the air will do. Just placing a stone or an upside-down clay pot inside could work.
I'm a simple man - I see new Primitive Technology, I click through immediately. It seems to me that with a springy sapling and a bit of cordage, you could convert this bellows into a spring-assisted foot-operated design, allowing you to relax a bit whilst cranking up the heat - or to use your hands for other tasks
Add a second bellow and swap the stick spring with a suspended balance scale system and you can alternate strokes using the other as a counter weight and double the airflow
And dual or triple bellows with a bamboo camshaft could allow continuous airflow powered by a water wheel. This is actually how foundries and smithies were powered 500 years ago. Source: The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio: The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy
I personally consider this to be one of the top most interesting designs since the channel was created. My man John is fast-tracked towards metalworking! I can see several of the most recent videos deal with furnace, airflow and coal efficiency
@@lforlight My guy out here getting ruffled by the most basic and common way people have been sharing their amusement for their favorite parts of media for decades, and frankly probably centuries to millennia.
I love designs like this, particularly because it isn't restricted to the materials used at all. Clay is an easy to form the exact shape of container material, but anything that you can form into the shape and holds up reasonably to force and water can be used. Sometimes the lack of good clay in my area makes some of these things hard to try, but this I think I can replicate using a number of options.
One could actually build this in really big format easily by using fire to hollow out a big stump into a large bucket. I could even think of ways of building this solely from bamboo
I love it. Using the element of water, to push the element of air, through a the element of earth to feed the element of air into the element of fire. You are the alchemist at it's finest.
I spent 3/4ths of this video thinking, how the hell can water be used for blowing air, but then the testing, made me shout WOW out loud. Absolutely incredible stuff Your videos are bloody fantastic, thank you for continuing to share your work!
Ya know, wether or not you knew it, the setup with the two nozzles actually takes advantage of the Bernoulli principle of fluid dynamics, hard to say just from watching, but that method likely causes much more air to flow through the secondary nozzle. Really cool build, loved watching it, another banger.
Idea: Make the puddle big enough to fit a pot next to the bellows. The empty pot will float, letting you use your foot to push it down, raising the water level and forcing air out of the bellows. Then it floats up to reset.
That's pretty genius... I wonder if it might be less efficient, as the water level would be more inclined to rise *outside* the bellows than inside due to lower air pressure.
I would say to increase the depth of the hole and the height of the bellow. Maybe curve it a little to account for the rotation during use. A longer stroke giving air for longer might be better than these short ones of only a half second burst of air.
Impressive design. So simple and yet so effective. I imagine with a small wooden frame (shape of an A) and some rope you could make it foot-actuated too, reducing arm/hand strain during longer operation. Have the rope attached to the handle, go over the top of the frame and then attach it too a piece of wood you can step on like a pedal.
Man every end screen with different fire sounds through all these experiments get me so pumped for seeing what comes next in the endeavor for metalworking
Next step, invent the water wheel and leverage that rotation to pump for you. Make lots of iron, make a vessel to boil water in, leverage the power of steam to turn a wheel.....eventually you get AI
@@johnny555he has already made a water powered treadle hammer (water fills a container at one end of a lever lifting a hammer at the other end, empties at the apex and drops the hammer) it wouldn't be hard to modify it to run a couple water bellows.
when the bellows body was fixed and the waterlevel would move instead, it should be less likely to break. the change of the waterlevel could be achieved just by a larger puddle and a simple displacer. this would also make it easier to combine multiple bellows for more airflow as they could share a single displacer of a greater size.
My two cents. Can that displacer be... a leg? Then he just needs to sit on the side of the larger puddle and lift his legs up and down, like in swimming class. idk.
What about an asymetric crank that raised and lowered the handle? If you paired that with the displacer outside the bellows you could move the air volume quicker right? It would come out of the water with the bellows - quickly lowering the water level while raising the bellows which creates additional suction. So to in the reverse, ya?
In a time where UA-cam is seemingly on fire in a chemical reaction collision course to self combust entirely, I'm really glad I still have fresh videos from this channel to watch.
This is genius ! I love how you are always trying to optimise your processes. No technological or industrial leap but he slow progress of countless trials and errors and th accumulation of knowledge.
Thank you for showing adding the leaves toward the end of the pottery firing, and explaining that ashes can be used for insulation to keep the pot from cooling too quickly, which would indeed crack it. There are many more steps to a good, successful pottery firing--especially with primitive firings--than most people realize! (Calling it "primitive" is something of a misnomer, because successful firings are usually quite sophisticated and complicated...but it's the terminology we've come to accept.)
I was not expecting the sudden zoom in and "primitive fire extinguisher". You had me cackling. You usually just silently look at the items and we get the implied meaning. This just felt like a meme and I love it. You knew what you were doing and I love it.
This design is incredible!! Excellent execution of a novel idea! I wish I was able to test a couple ideas I had for this device: 1. Attaching cord to the handle, loop over a raised horizontal pole and back down to the ground. It could be lifted by tugging the cord. I can't think of a way to engineer this, but it makes me wonder if it could attach to a foot pedal to allow for foot powered operation. 2. I wonder if a taller version would work. This would allow for longer pumps with more continuous airflow by containing a larger volume of air. The downside is it would be heavier, and the angle of motion would be greater, making issues keeping it in the tuyere. These videos are the favorite part of my day every time they drop! Thank you for an amazing channel.
Good thinking. And if you narrow the aperture of the outlet spout, the construction would ease back into the water more slowly, while blowing a continuous stream of air. It would maybe cut the work load in half again.
Now that I think about it you could just have a long stick attached to the handle with clay and with a rock as a fulcrum then flare one end of the stick out and you have a foot pedal. I guess you'd need a hinge on the end that connects to the bellows
Wow, it's a great primitive instrument for lighting a fire 💯💛👍 I often watch UA-cam 😊 It's amazing. It's amazing👍 Thank you for making a good UA-cam video❤️ Thank you 😊❤️
🔥Получается - влажный воздух всегда гонится - охлаждая систему, что, например сильно понижает температуру при выплавке того же железа, я бы лучше перегонный куб из глины собрал. Кстати, в начале о нем и подумал.
3:59 IMO the fact that he has a) the processed material at hand and b) the skillset to simply jerry-rig equipment that would otherwise be it's own manufacturing process is a milestone in itself.
When we were kids we mucked about at a local dump for inorganic materials. We cut ourselves often and when we did we smeared the local clay on the cuts. We seemed to survive that OK. :)
...mostly these kind of little cracks or wounds are no problem for a guy who is mostly barefoot, his callus is much thicker and harder. I am a barefoot-guy, too, and I have similar cracks. By the way, he has beautiful feet, strong and healthy. ❤👣😉👍
I built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve. When pushed down into water, the valve shuts and air is forced out of the spout and into the fire. When the pot is lifted in water, air is sucked in through the open inlet valve and the cycle repeats.
I got the idea from a Food and Agriculture Organization website I saw years ago. A Google image search for “FAO water bellows” gives an image of someone using a more complicated version at a brick forge in Zimbabwe, possibly from 1994, but I can no longer find the original diagram or description. From memory, the air and water containers were steel drums and there was a U-shaped pipe to convey the air down from inside the air drum when lowered, through and out the water drum and into the fire. Air entered an inlet valve in the top of the air drum when lifted. There may also have been an outlet valve which would presumably have been located on the outlet pipe. The pipe remained stationary through the cycle.
My design is a simplified version of this with a spout leading directly from the air pot into the fire. The spout moves with the pot instead of being fixed in place as it is raised and lowered. The spout nose is resting in place on the ground in front of the fire acting as a hinge, with the whole unit acting as a lever. If the nose of the spout is resting in the entrance of a fixed tuyere (air pipe) then the angle of the jet can be kept constant with the added advantage of the venturi effect drawing in more air. My design also only has one valve (inlet) for simplicity.
The bellows produced a similar effect to the traditional blacksmith bellows without requiring leather to build. It seems to produce a higher-pressure jet of air than the blower I’ve used previously. It’s also less complicated to build, with fewer perishable materials and has fewer moving parts that often break or seize during use. It should be easier to maintain, more ergonomic and require less skill to use. My next step is to conduct a test iron smelt with the existing prototype and compare its performance with the old blower. Possible improvements could be made where it would be made a double acting bellows with two connected pots similar to the Peruvian whistle jar but with 4 valves to direct air flow. It could also be made larger or two could be used at the same time.
Thank you for all you inspiring videos!
Thank you
Primitive Technology and Bush Tucker Man are two absolute gems from Australia that the world is lucky to have, thanks for your videos
have u thought about making a clay water wheel which can power a bellow or bellows, theres a video of an old forge with bellows powered this but on a massive scale
This is a bit unrelated to the video, but how long does it usually take to start a fire by way of friction? You seem to be very quick at it.
That leaf trick covering the intake hole is simply brilliant
A valve with a leaf... amazing
PRIMATIVE(tm) check valve
I would never have thought a leaf could work as a valve. This is Advanced Primitivity!
And the sound it makes is very satisfying
@@vandorb12 It sounds a bit like like someone playing an "Udu" drum, soft a rythmic dooo-uup with a pop of the hole being covered!
That leaf valve is probably the coolest little trick I've ever seen someone make when working with gathered natural materials
I hope he makes plumping next. Running water and perhaps a mesopotamian style toilet would be cool.
He's probably got enough iron to make a hinge, not that it would fix to clay.
@@KandiKlover plumping 😏
@@KandiKlover You can see that in "primitive skills", 7years channel, after 1 year he really started something big, and you can see all the progress until now (no tech cheat, guy really flooded a landmass, started building a drainage system with 3 stones, and then let it dry before building a fucking articificial lake. And you get to see the same valve with a feather twist 😉
I would say it won't last very long, but since it's a leaf it doesn't matter because you can just grab another one if it cracks.
Friendly reminder to all to turn on CCs for all of this channels videos.
thanks, dude, I'm new to the channels and that was a PSA
You just made me watch the entire video again 😆
I have been watching this channel on and off for YEARS, and this morning was the first time i had ever had captions on. I was like, man this is the loudest this guy has ever been. I wasn't against it, just something was off.. and i was like "wait, those look like captions"...hit C, and boom. Mind blown that that's been there the whole time. I mustve had them on for something else, and for the first time had them on for this.
I appreciate that he puts the info in the CCs instead of overlaying it or narrating it, so people can still watch it without the subs (they are missing out tho)
@@ramseyhampton7625 my dude, you need to go back to the start!
I never thought in my life you could make a reed valve air compressor out of a leaf, clay and water... at this rate this channel is going to be a historical reference for centuries to come. That's proper nuts
I wanna UwU your profile pic
It's called a reed valve, after all
Fun fact: John actually made his camera out of clay, some fibres from lawyers cane and a healthy dollop of iron bacteria.
John Plant Literally sparked an entire genre on youtube. The fakers came post 2015 but yeah, HE IS the OG of Primitive Technologies!
As if he reversed engineer alien technology and reinvented it with his tech
His skills are getting better, the finish of his pottery is so much better these days.
@@keyboardoracle1044 I barely can heat rocks to make a coffe, imagine doing all its pottery.
I remember laughing at his early coil pots, they were way too wet and he was terrible about letting them dry. Now he's well beyond what I could do with natural earthenware and a pit firing. Hell, he might be able to mix his own underglazes soon
@@shippu7 honestly would be fun to see if he could figure out reduction glazes
That's the most hard working tiny leaf I have ever seen in my life. It's so cute that it's a vital part of such a cool tool. If you asked me 10 minutes ago how a singe tiny leaf leaf could be used in a practical way, I'd be hard pressed for an answer.
gives me butterfly effect vibes, sometimes all you need is 1 leaf and everything changes
These are one of those facts that will come in handy in the distant future
in a practical way? you probably never had tea :P
@@Gamoklis tea made from a single small leaf?
I need a cute fanart of that leaf
"Fire is close to thatched roof"
> slow pan and quick zoom in on water bucket
"Primitive fire extinguisher"
This man is a master of comedic timing
i usually watch his vid without CC, based on the camera pan and zoom, I understood the context.
Jimming the camera
primitive humour :D
youtube really needs a spoiler feature...
@@PhillHalloran there is, its called watching the whole video before reading the comments
I’m sorry, but “primitive fire extinguisher” might have been the first time I’ve ever *laughed* at one of these videos. That was damn funny.
One of his older videos, he shows a turkey (I think) walking into his site and the caption was "Mining foreman"
Its not an extinguisher, its quite the opposite.
OH, my granddad used to have something like this in his forge, he called it a frog pot, cause of the splashy grunting sound it makes. That really took me back.
I've heard of those in mentioned in forges but never knew what they were. That's pretty cool.
Interesting... Considering that OP said he couldn't find the original reference image he based this design off of, maybe he'll notice your comment so he can find the "frog pot"?
@@xLoLRaven All I could find was frog shaped flower pots lol
Primitive Fire Extinguisher cracked me up 😂
Choked on my drink
@@danedwards_ee The dramatic zoom in was ace.
@@TamerBayouq it was the break of character which really did it for me.
Dont forget to turn on subtitles! He uses those to tell you what he is doing and why!
@@danedwards_ee It was both the dramatic zoom and the deadpan humor.
This is the first time PT has actually "talked" to his viewers. That zoom was epic.
Timestamp or lie
I don't get it :^\
@@slotmoonits a joke that he's well prepared this time in case he burnt his hut again
Turn on the captions
@@HowToChangeName oooh I get it now. Thanks!
The snap zoom on the water pot followed by "primitive fire extinguisher" killed me
RIP
Mr. Plant doesn't make jokes often, but when he does, they always land.
absolutely cackling at that
RIP mikamekaze
Then how are you writing this?
What I love about this design is anybody could make this. The other bellow designs need much more effort and skill to get right, but this is just a clay pot and a leaf. But then counter-intuitively it's the most advanced in terms of physics knowledge.
Sometimes the hardest problems require the simplest of solutions
Clay work is not easy. It's a craft
@@bergonius whilst true, it's a craft with an accessable learning curve.
@@ChuntyCopsToo right.
There's a definite value in purposefully keeping designs as simple as possible.
@@bergonius if you can craft the clay bellows required for the other one, you can craft this and with much less effort
Thank goodness this guy is still around despite the allegations of other channels who used modern machinery, which ended up being true.
So glad to have an authentic person who actually does primitive technology 🙌 keep it up!
Reminder to turn closed captioning on for notes as he goes along
🙌Changed my life when someone told me he close captions his vids
lol I been watching for a while and never knew that 😅😂
This should be top comment
Came here to say this since I learned the trick 😁 you beat me to it. Thank you!
Reminder to turn closed captioning on for 'primitive fire extinguisher'
You do a great job filming these. No music, no narration, no sponsors or ads. The way you put these videos together makes it so easy to follow along that we can understand without you saying a word. The captions are a great touch, optional but informational. Thanks for another great video!
there is ads
@@KarmaGeeGeeThey mean it's not sponsored so he doesn't do ad reads
Eu acho que o som das aves é uma gravação...acho...
@@harleylequin3987 I tried to imagine an alternate ending where it cuts to John talking about how great Cash App is, and then I realized I don't actually know what John sounds like. The guy's gotta be up there with Teller from Penn & Teller for "Most hours of entertainment without saying a word".
Rowan Atkinson gets honorable mention for third place, but I've heard him talk quite a bit by now.
Earth, water,wind, and fire. That setup's got it all
He is the Avatar
That zoom in to the water with "Primitive fire extinguisher" was way funnier than it had any right to be.
I always watch without cc. I still laughed at the panning from dry roof to water pot zoom
My 4 year old grandson loves to watch “the mudman “. He’ll be thrilled that there’s a new episode.
That's super cute. Have you tried to make something out of clay together?
Mudman is an amazing nickname for this guy😂
Should be canon.
Keep a little dirt under your pillow for the dirt man. In case he comes to town.
@@The_Forge_MasterI can 100% see a 4 year old doing this
The only real king of this genre, everyone else just fakes their videos and doesn't care
He's also the og guy who made this trend
Absolutely ingenious! By combining this idea with a bell siphon and a flowing stream, its now possible to completely automate airflow into a fire! This would have the added benefit of being able to control speed of operation by adjusting the height of the bell siphon and/or the amount of incoming water
I tried making a bell siphon bellows at home so it empties and fills pushing and sucking air. It sort of works though the air flow was low. I thought a trompe might work the same but I'm not sure. Thanks.
@@primitivetechnology9550 How about collecting bubbles from a water fall? Ofc then you have the issue of getting that air to where you need it.
@@primitivetechnology9550 Please try making soap in different ways!! (for example alkaline)
@@primitivetechnology9550 a trompe will get you a very good and constant stream of presurized air; but you have 2 problems to solve, 1 you need a water jump, so either making a dam or chanelling some water to somewhere where there will be a jump, and 2 the pots and clay pipes will need to handle some presure from the presurized air, not much, but baked clay is not known for elasticity or resisting tension.
@@primitivetechnology9550 A 'Monjolo' could automate it but would be slow. Maybe a flywheel with an offset crankpin powered by the monjolo somehow.
This is one of my most beloved YT channels of ALL them.
I've been following this man since his channel started, one of the first original outdoors survival, hunter-gatherer afficionado's and the best at it, as no one does what he does, or how he does it. I've learned alot from this man, and I'm happy to see where his channel is at, with how it's grown with like-minded people who appreciate and love the hunter gatherer life style.
Gf: "What are you watching?"
Me: "Caveman ASMR"
"you wouldnt get it babe, hes about to reach the bronze age!"
And what was her response to that?
@@user-zn7he5rm5thaha I get it 😁
I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time!!!
When people say "technology porn" they probably think of something other than this.
But they have no idea.
Using the Earth to construct a tool, that uses Water to move Air and feed a Fire. Primitive Technology is the reincarnation of the Avatar! Master of all 4 elements.
This is why ancient people were often smarter than modern people.
Now they didn’t know as many things about our reality. But they actually had to sue their intelligence to live and survive. Today you can just watch UA-cam and consume 1300 calories at McDonald’s and never truly rely on your cognition.
So keep this in mind when people try to write off ancient societies as absurd, backwards and ignorant. They had their own wisdoms and truths
And as you suggest: their lives depended on it.
@@EggEnjoyeri'd say there are different types of knowledge
Everything is from the earth.
@@roger5059 Do you think modern knowledge is in some way, shape or form special and unique from ancient knowledge?
Love the channel. When you watch videos of this sort, make sure you are learning something that you can replicate. Otherwise, you're wasting your time. This channel is an absolute gold and a source of valuable information.
If you wanted to optimize it, you could make the front part of the wall shorter, so you’re lifting less weight, which you’d be able to do since that part never leaves the water anyway. A horizontal handle near the top could also be nice, which you could rig to a rope, pulley, and foot pedal.
If you see in the back ground at 3:57 I made a prototype similar to what you describe (slopes towards outlet spout). The handle is a good idea too so it resembles the traditional bellows. clay may break, maybe a socket for a wooden handle. Thanks.
@@primitivetechnology9550 maybe a couple of small thick clay loops for a cordage/rope handle
@@primitivetechnology9550 perhaps instead of a handle on the side a loop/habdle on the top near the edge, that can be used in 3 different ways, 1 directly as a handle by hand, 2 a place to tie rope with wich to pull up, and 3 by inserting a stick that goes past it a bit, the stick that protrudes becomes a horizontal handle.
lever attached with a vine - it's easier to push down than pull up. It could be a foot pedal that you could operate from a stool or chair.
@@primitivetechnology9550 Is the water really necessary here? It seems to me that anything that will force out the air will do.
Just placing a stone or an upside-down clay pot inside could work.
I'm a simple man - I see new Primitive Technology, I click through immediately.
It seems to me that with a springy sapling and a bit of cordage, you could convert this bellows into a spring-assisted foot-operated design, allowing you to relax a bit whilst cranking up the heat - or to use your hands for other tasks
My thoughts exactly! Leaves your hands free for, say, twining cordage.
Or adding getting charcoal and metal bits and bobs ready for working?
Add a second bellow and swap the stick spring with a suspended balance scale system and you can alternate strokes using the other as a counter weight and double the airflow
@@runwords_ This is the way
And dual or triple bellows with a bamboo camshaft could allow continuous airflow powered by a water wheel.
This is actually how foundries and smithies were powered 500 years ago. Source: The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio: The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy
Примитивные технологии. Топ. Самый лучший канал. Уважение тебе за твой труд. Нынешняя молодежь этого г конечно не оценят. Красавчик. Уважение тебе.
Simple and brilliant at the same time. I wouldn't have thought of it myself.
Dont forget to turn on subtitles! He uses those to tell you what he is doing and why!
Finally! I've been asking for a powered double bellows system with a counterweight system since this channel started! Well done!
And without leather too. Thanks.
@@primitivetechnology9550Yep no leather is massive. Feels like it's a very impressive invention, just in the wrong times haha 😅😅.
@@primitivetechnology9550 tie it in to a water wheel next to a stream linked on a cam and you can make it automatic!
Dont forget to turn on subtitles! He uses those to tell you what he is doing and why!
@@primitivetechnology9550 Please try making soap in different ways!! (for example alkaline)
I've been watching this channel for years and it never ceases to amaze me how much this guy can accomplish with just his bare hands.
John: The things you come up with, always blow my mind. Simplicity and ingenuity. Well done.
They don't just blow your mind, they blow on fire as well
Perfect timing, some ASMR before bed. Love how peaceful these videos are
100%
I haven't long got out of bed, I love a peaceful morning!
this one in particular, i love the bwoop sound the leaf valve makes
I think you mean CLAYSMR
I personally consider this to be one of the top most interesting designs since the channel was created.
My man John is fast-tracked towards metalworking! I can see several of the most recent videos deal with furnace, airflow and coal efficiency
Fire's getting close to thatch roof
Zooms in on pot of water. "Primitive fire extinguisher"
Dont forget to turn on subtitles! He uses those to tell you what he is doing and why!
Oh my god, you watched the same video?
@@lforlight yes
@@lforlight My guy out here getting ruffled by the most basic and common way people have been sharing their amusement for their favorite parts of media for decades, and frankly probably centuries to millennia.
@@tulipalllI have been watching this channel for many years and I never knew that. Thank you.
I love designs like this, particularly because it isn't restricted to the materials used at all. Clay is an easy to form the exact shape of container material, but anything that you can form into the shape and holds up reasonably to force and water can be used. Sometimes the lack of good clay in my area makes some of these things hard to try, but this I think I can replicate using a number of options.
One could actually build this in really big format easily by using fire to hollow out a big stump into a large bucket. I could even think of ways of building this solely from bamboo
Really loving the sounds of the birds in the background. So different from what I’m used to hearing. 🙂
I don’t care what it is, I will stop what I am doing to watch your content.
CPR
@@makimaki500 I’m sure they would understand
I agree, it's therapeutic!
A320 pilot here about to land and I fully agree with you!
Same
I love it. Using the element of water, to push the element of air, through a the element of earth to feed the element of air into the element of fire. You are the alchemist at it's finest.
He's an Avatar, the master of four elements!
He could make a furnace that has two tuyeres, dig puddles to hold two water bellows and use both of them with both hands to maximize air flow
I spent 3/4ths of this video thinking, how the hell can water be used for blowing air, but then the testing, made me shout WOW out loud. Absolutely incredible stuff
Your videos are bloody fantastic, thank you for continuing to share your work!
Ya know, wether or not you knew it, the setup with the two nozzles actually takes advantage of the Bernoulli principle of fluid dynamics, hard to say just from watching, but that method likely causes much more air to flow through the secondary nozzle. Really cool build, loved watching it, another banger.
9:00 The added clay tube was a great idea to improve the blowing rate of the bellows. Check out the Bernoulli's principle.
the 4 Elements working together. This is beautiful!
Everything MUST stop when this man uploads!
I yelled ITS AUGUST! 😂
Dont forget to turn on subtitles! He uses those to tell you what he is doing and why!
Everything stops for him...except for Etho. Etho starts when he uploads
I'm always worried that some cardiac surgeon might be subscribed. They must have the notification bell turned off
So many of these things are so brilliant yet so simple. Amazing!
I love how simple, but how crazy effective this little design is. You truly are a master of the wilderness.
Idea: Make the puddle big enough to fit a pot next to the bellows. The empty pot will float, letting you use your foot to push it down, raising the water level and forcing air out of the bellows. Then it floats up to reset.
That's pretty genius... I wonder if it might be less efficient, as the water level would be more inclined to rise *outside* the bellows than inside due to lower air pressure.
That would work, but it'd be slower than manually lifting the pot up. That leaf might not be 100% airtight, after all. :D
What about a spring pole to raise the pot then you could just push it down.
I would say to increase the depth of the hole and the height of the bellow. Maybe curve it a little to account for the rotation during use. A longer stroke giving air for longer might be better than these short ones of only a half second burst of air.
Just use a lever and you can foot pedal it
bro,
I hope you know how much you have positively helped humanity!
Impressive design. So simple and yet so effective.
I imagine with a small wooden frame (shape of an A) and some rope you could make it foot-actuated too, reducing arm/hand strain during longer operation.
Have the rope attached to the handle, go over the top of the frame and then attach it too a piece of wood you can step on like a pedal.
Man every end screen with different fire sounds through all these experiments get me so pumped for seeing what comes next in the endeavor for metalworking
This completely makes me rethink of how to use water as a tool. Great video!
This experiment has set my brain on fire thinking of other ways to integrate this into making smelting easier while having a consistent air flow.
Next step, invent the water wheel and leverage that rotation to pump for you. Make lots of iron, make a vessel to boil water in, leverage the power of steam to turn a wheel.....eventually you get AI
@@johnny555he has already made a water powered treadle hammer (water fills a container at one end of a lever lifting a hammer at the other end, empties at the apex and drops the hammer) it wouldn't be hard to modify it to run a couple water bellows.
This is such a brilliant idea.
Also it always blows my mind, what a smart guy can build with just a little clay.
I have almost all the knowledge I need to turn a water mill into a medieval freezer.
Someone get me a time machine, I'm gonna make bank.
when the bellows body was fixed and the waterlevel would move instead, it should be less likely to break. the change of the waterlevel could be achieved just by a larger puddle and a simple displacer. this would also make it easier to combine multiple bellows for more airflow as they could share a single displacer of a greater size.
please think of weight of water to be displaced every time.
My two cents. Can that displacer be... a leg? Then he just needs to sit on the side of the larger puddle and lift his legs up and down, like in swimming class. idk.
What about an asymetric crank that raised and lowered the handle? If you paired that with the displacer outside the bellows you could move the air volume quicker right?
It would come out of the water with the bellows - quickly lowering the water level while raising the bellows which creates additional suction. So to in the reverse, ya?
Primitive fire extinguisher lmao
I need a "Primitive Technology Clay Working" compilation. It's so satisfying to see him do stuff with clay.
In a time where UA-cam is seemingly on fire in a chemical reaction collision course to self combust entirely, I'm really glad I still have fresh videos from this channel to watch.
*Flammable roof with very close fire*
*Primitive Fire Extinguisher*
Safety 👍
This is genius ! I love how you are always trying to optimise your processes. No technological or industrial leap but he slow progress of countless trials and errors and th accumulation of knowledge.
Thank you for showing adding the leaves toward the end of the pottery firing, and explaining that ashes can be used for insulation to keep the pot from cooling too quickly, which would indeed crack it. There are many more steps to a good, successful pottery firing--especially with primitive firings--than most people realize! (Calling it "primitive" is something of a misnomer, because successful firings are usually quite sophisticated and complicated...but it's the terminology we've come to accept.)
the leaf valve closing and the air rushing in has the coolest sounds ever! Allmost like a heartbeat of the fire
Simply a timeless channel. As amazing as it was since the first video
The periodic table may have 113 elements, but sometimes you just need earth, water, air, and fire ;-)
I was not expecting the sudden zoom in and "primitive fire extinguisher". You had me cackling.
You usually just silently look at the items and we get the implied meaning. This just felt like a meme and I love it.
You knew what you were doing and I love it.
Humor is a coping mechanism for danger, and it was indeed very funny
dont forget to turn captions on if you ever want to read what he’s doing
I really noticed how beautiful the birdsong in teh background is. you are blessed to live in this area.
Wait no this episode is pure comedy. Primitive fire extinguisher!?
I made one of these as a teenager, but i used a bucket of water and a plastic 2 liter bottle with the bottom cut off and some tin foil.
I am glad there are people like you in the world 🌎.
The world stops for 10 minutes - love this!
The "primitive fire extinguisher" made me snort laugh
This is honestly amazing. I would have never thought of thid myself, and i used to do a lot of primitive tech back in the day. Hats off to you!
this man single handedly proving the potential technological advancement of lost civilizations
The coolest content on UA-cam is here
I think that was the first dramatic zoom ive seen on this channel, love it
This design is incredible!! Excellent execution of a novel idea!
I wish I was able to test a couple ideas I had for this device:
1. Attaching cord to the handle, loop over a raised horizontal pole and back down to the ground. It could be lifted by tugging the cord. I can't think of a way to engineer this, but it makes me wonder if it could attach to a foot pedal to allow for foot powered operation.
2. I wonder if a taller version would work. This would allow for longer pumps with more continuous airflow by containing a larger volume of air. The downside is it would be heavier, and the angle of motion would be greater, making issues keeping it in the tuyere.
These videos are the favorite part of my day every time they drop! Thank you for an amazing channel.
Good thinking. And if you narrow the aperture of the outlet spout, the construction would ease back into the water more slowly, while blowing a continuous stream of air. It would maybe cut the work load in half again.
Yeah the next step would be too add some sort of lever (or a pulley!) to make the motion easier
Now that I think about it you could just have a long stick attached to the handle with clay and with a rock as a fulcrum then flare one end of the stick out and you have a foot pedal. I guess you'd need a hinge on the end that connects to the bellows
He doesn't seem to be losing a lot of water into the surrounding dirt, so there may be no point in having a larger pot to hold the water in.
Wow, it's a great primitive instrument for lighting a fire 💯💛👍
I often watch UA-cam 😊
It's amazing. It's amazing👍
Thank you for making a good UA-cam video❤️
Thank you 😊❤️
This is incredible i never even thought of using water to create bellows, but it makes perfect sense and it's working incredibly well
4:40 casually burning his house down.
I dont think that bucket is gonna do much brother 🤣
Maybe if he’d wet the roof beforehand
That zoom and the 'Primitive fire extinguisher',😂😂😂😂
After all this years he is still tge number 1 primitive technology youtuber
That Zoom at 5:00 had me literally laughing out loud. Your work is impeccable, as always. Gotta love that sound.
0:58 Behold Orb!
😂 be a comedian with that timing damn near made me launch a soda pop out ma nose
The sound the water makes combined with the flames sounds very cool
Always excited to see an upload!!!
06:00 primitive shore armament or naval gun :D you're welcome
Fraking genius. Blows my mind every time. Keep up the good work bud!
I nearly spit my drink out when it zoomed in to "primitive fire extinguisher" hahaha
The sounds generated by the water bellows is the creation of Primitive EDM. "PFFT wub-wub PFFT wub-wub PFFT wub-wub"
I like the groove 😂
Thanks for creating and sharing this rich content. My son and I love to watch!
This one I never saw before :O
Now would be a good time to start automation, running water or wind perhaps, and some pulleys to increase speed!
How many of you have been watching this channel for years and didn't know these came with informative subtitles when captions are turned on.
🔥Получается - влажный воздух всегда гонится - охлаждая систему, что, например сильно понижает температуру при выплавке того же железа, я бы лучше перегонный куб из глины собрал. Кстати, в начале о нем и подумал.
3:59 IMO the fact that he has a) the processed material at hand and b) the skillset to simply jerry-rig equipment that would otherwise be it's own manufacturing process is a milestone in itself.
Anyone else notice the cut on the bottom of his foot? This man risks infection to get us this amazing content that could save our lives one day
When we were kids we mucked about at a local dump for inorganic materials. We cut ourselves often and when we did we smeared the local clay on the cuts. We seemed to survive that OK. :)
lol, you've been outside?? It's not post-apo fallout thing (not the bethesda take even more so).
he's from australia, anything up to a fleshwound is of no concern
@@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn honestly fair. they're built different. gotta be to survive in the place where even god won't tread.
...mostly these kind of little cracks or wounds are no problem for a guy who is mostly barefoot, his callus is much thicker and harder. I am a barefoot-guy, too, and I have similar cracks.
By the way, he has beautiful feet, strong and healthy. ❤👣😉👍
It also makes an incredibly fun sound! I love this design! It's so clever!
dude upgraded and improved his technique in a day i cant imagine how ancient humans must have felt when they always improved in their knowledge